NASA's Hubble Maps the Temperature and Water Vapor on an Extreme Exoplanet (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA's Hubble Maps the Temperature and Water Vapor on an Extreme Exoplanet

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This is a temperature map of the "hot Jupiter" class exoplanet WASP 43b. The white-colored region on the daytime side is 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit. The nighttime side temperatures drop to under 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

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